Almoravid decline begins
1119
A major Christian raid reached Granada. Ali ibn Yusuf's government, weakened by political infighting and mounting taxes to fund two fronts in Spain and the Sahara, began to lose the loyalty of its Berber soldiery. The Almohad preachers in the Atlas were watching. Within a decade, the reformers would descend from their mountain strongholds to challenge the Almoravids for control of the entire Maghreb and al-Andalus.
In context
Also in 1119 (3 other events on record)
- Field of Blood · Middle East · War
- Sinking of the White Ship · Europe · Disaster
- University of Bologna consolidates · Europe · Culture
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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